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Why, he thought with a sudden shock, if only 36,500 people in this city have had a thoroughly spendthrift and useless day, that means a net loss of a century! If the War, he said to himself, lasted over 1,500 days and involved more than 10,000,000 men, how many aeons He used to think about these things during quiet evenings in the top-floor room at Mrs. Purp's.
If you don't you had better go to the British Museum at once and find out. Anyway, it is not at all the sort of thing that you expect to meet in a top-floor front in Bloomsbury, looking as though it would like to know what business YOU had there. So everyone said, 'Oh! rather loud, and their boots clattered as they stumbled back.
About "J. Heeney," however, he discovered nothing beyond the fact that he had occupied the cellar for several months. Trotter did not want to arouse unnecessary suspicion by overinterrogating "J. Heeney's" neighbors. So he went mildly back to his top-floor room, and sat down and tried to study things out.
Since early evening she had watched the house from the window of a top-floor hall bedroom in the boarding-house opposite. Shortly before seven she had seen Maitland, stiff and uncompromising in rigorous evening dress, leave in a cab. Since then only once had a light appeared in his rooms; at about half-after nine the janitor had appeared in the study, turning up the gas and going to the telephone.
Bartlett, at No. 7, Sapps Court, when having laid bare the ends of the top-floor joists in Mrs. Prichard's front attic it turned out just like he said it would six-inch jystes with no hold to 'em, and onto that all perished at the ends! Why ever they couldn't go to a new floor when they done the new roof Mr. Bartlett could not conceive.
He swung south and then west again, to his own street. He went up his own steps, through his own door, and up to his own top-floor room with the rakish back wall. There he cautiously lighted the gas, drew the blinds, and locked himself in. Next, he dragged a chair over to the bedside, sat down on it, and carefully untied the parcel string.
"See here, McCabe, I've had a deuce of a time with that case. Must have been something wrong with the address, you know." "How's that?" says I. "Why," says he, "it led me to a smelly, top-floor flat up in Harlem, and all I could find there was this impossible person, Mrs. Fletcher Shaw. Of all the sniveling, lying, vicious-tongued old harridans! Do you know what she did?
"What does he know of the murder of Marbury and of you in connection with it?" demanded Breton. "Come tell me the truth now." "He's been investigating so he says," answered Elphick. "He lives in that house in Middle Temple Lane, you know, in the top-floor rooms above Cardlestone's. And and he says he's the fullest evidence against Cardlestone and against me as an accessory after the fact."
She stood wondering, and in that pause she missed her chance, for the steps came straight past the door and began to go upstairs. It might, of course, conceivably be one of the lodgers on the top-floor, and yet she knew it was not.
And even in the dark top-floor hallway he was awed, and almost afraid. Then in the blackness, his eyes on the thread of light beneath the rear door, he advanced, reached up his hand, and knocked. There came, somehow surprising him, a definite, clear-edged voice: "Come in!" He opened the door, which swung just free of the narrow cot.
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